Phantom of the Opera but at the end of the musical when Meg lifts the sheet covering the throne, The Phantom is just sitting there awkwardly
*remembers that interview w hugh panaro where he talks about how the chair didnt work and he had to poke the mask through the cape to the meg while whispering “i’m still here don’t take it off”*
I don’t get why Christine is portrayed so ditsy and weak in some versions like
-it’s Raoul and Erik who swoon and cry in every scene, not Christine, i think you’re mixing up your characters
-out of Raoul and Christine, Leroux literally calls Christine “the stronger of the two”
-When Raoul is all up her face she actually calls him out on his shit like I don’t need to answer to you I don’t need no man
-when Erik starts to freak her out she doesn’t run to Raoul for protection, she tries to make him leave so she can protect HIM from Erik
-Raoul doesn’t make it particularly easy though she physically has to drag him away from every trap door in the opera house
-she’s REMARKABLY CALM about being kidnapped Raoul would have cried if Erik had kidnapped him let’s be honest here
-Her mother dies when she’s six and her father, who was the entire world to Christine basically, dies when she’s a teenager. but she stills deals with her losses despite being haunted by them. that’s hardcore
-she was literally the only person who could stand looking at Erik’s face without freaking out and she still found the goodness in her heart to pity him instead of just running away from that crazy, she hella brave and has an extraordinary capacity to see the good in others
-she tries to sing for Erik once last time before she leaves just to be nice?? instead of just immediately leaving??
-it takes a really big person to pity someone like that instead of despising them out of fear, and though she acknowledges that he’s messed up, she refuses to say that she hates Erik
-Raoul doesn’t rescue Christine it’s the OTHER WAY AROUND he accidentally falls into a torture chamber and would have died if the Persian didn’t know his stuff and if Christine hadn’t convinced Erik not to drown them both
-She chooses to live with Erik rather than let Raoul die along with everyone else in the opera house that took guts, if she wasn’t hella brave she would have just let everyone get blown up
-like that’s so selfless of her
-she also has rlly pretty hair go Christine go
Christine is goals.
I S U P P O R T THIS
Christine is a queen who I would marry in .5 seconds if I could
Never not reblogging this glorious example of the most inspiring character that I will always look up to. Christine Daaé is the best role model.
POTO adaptations that sound fake but actually happened
– 80’s/highschool/mall AU
– Phantom on ice
– a hentai game where Erik is a blue-haired anime boy
– an adaptation where Erik didn’t even have a deformity, fucked rats, and Raoul looked like Prince
– a high-budget musical adaptation of the fanfiction you wrote when you were 14 and still in your Erik stan phase
– A sequle to the original book where Raoul got his dick shot off and Jesus Christ himself literally showed up as a character with dialouge
– and animated adaptation that borderline looks like one of those Zelda CDi games
– that time Raoul was a jack russle terrier
– a loosely-based animated adaptation where the phantom was a bug furry and it was actually a hertfelt and sweet movie
– That one non-ALW musical which only the audio exists and no video footage, whic was meant for grade-school aged children to play despite the fact that every singer in the recording was a grown ass adult and many of the vocals would have been way too hard for most kids that young to achieve.
– That non-ALW musical that the Charles Dance version was based off that had Gaston from Beauty in the Beast in it
– a high budget all-female japanese production of the previously mentioned musical that was actually fucking amazing.
– a manga that absolutely no one ever talks about
– an episode of the Hello Kitty cartoon where the phantom was a cute little mouse
– a Scooby Doo movie where the deformity design actually looked like the original, Christine was a little girl who was an obnoxious little shit, and Carlotta tried to murder Shaggy and Scooby
Sometimes I think about Erik pulling away from kisses and gasping and shaking and really struggling to collect himself and I cry.
Sometimes I just think about Erik and I cry.
Sometimes Erik thinks about Erik and he cries.
I don’t remember writing this but yeah it’s true.
Sometimes Raoul thinks about Erik and he cries (Wait didn’t that happen in the book….)
RAOUL CRIES IN ALMOST EVERY CHAPTER WHAT DO YOU MEAN
Think about the poor Daroga who has to deal with a Swedish soprano, a young Vicomte, and an ugly murder man all crying ALL THE TIME.
Ok now I’m just thinking about the Daroga looking exasperated while holding Raoul, Christine and Erik on those child leashes as they all run crying in different directions.
Someone pls draw this
“Erik for the last time youre not dying, you just have feelings”
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